Baregara
(chaotic, evil, extraplanar)
Baregaras are horned, crimson-furred, gorilla-like outsiders1 crafted by the demon lord Angazhan from the souls of especially cruel primates, particularly charau-ka, angazhanis,2 and awakened apes.1
Appearance
Baregaras are 12 feet tall from their feet to their horns, even when walking stooped on their knuckles. They can weigh up to 1,500 pounds.3[citation needed]
Abilities
Each baregara has a maw in its chest, where the heart of a mortal gorilla would be. This maw can consume and transport souls, turning them into bright purple lights. The baregara then returns these souls to Ahvoth-Kor, where the souls are built into new baregaras.1
Habitat and society
While crafted by a demon lord, baregaras are not demons. Instead, they are a prototypical form of a demon, much like bebiliths or xacabras.3[citation needed]
Baregaras operate in small groups much like mortal apes, though as outsiders they share no other ecological or societal traits. These groups have complex, inscrutable hierarchies that revolve around trophies from their past kills, though such rivalries are ignored when working on their demon lord's orders or against a common enemy.1
On Golarion
Soul-bearing baregaras are often mistaken for will-o'-wisps as they swing through the canopies of the Mwangi Jungle. Quetz coatls4 and baregaras are mortal enemies who mercilessly hunt each other when they encounter one another in the Universe.1
While baregaras submit to being summoned by mortal spellcasters, they always serve Angazhan above all others.1
On distant worlds
Baregaras inhabit the Moonscar on Somal, Golarion's moon.5
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 . “Bestiary” in Sanctum of the Serpent God, 80–81. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ Paizo divided angazhanis into less intelligent, more bestial girallons and more powerful and intelligent angazhanis in Pathfinder First Edition. Paizo has not used the term "girallon" since the release of Pathfinder Second Edition, and Bestiary 3 and subsequent sources have described all such creatures as angazhanis.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 3, 34. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ Paizo referred to coatls as couatls until the publication of Monster Core.
- ↑ . The Moonscar, 10. Paizo Inc., 2012